While Halloween only comes around once a year, there are some truly frightful things happening in surgery centers around the country just about every day. To get you in the Halloween spirit, the ...

In another recent Halloween-themed post here, I discussed the psychology behind the nature of ghost stories and, to a degree, horror stories more generally. In response to a comment about what I ...

Heading into comic shops this April, Hello Body Horro r #1 spins off from the publisher’s acclaimed horror anthology Hello Darknes s. The new book is set to put together some of Hello Darkness’ most ...

I just completed my annual July 4th viewing of Jaws, so I was ready to read Lee Mellor’s new book, Behind the Horror: True Stories that Inspired Horror Movies. Jaws was on the list. So are 20 other ...

"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again." That's the immortal opening sentence of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's 1938 masterpiece. How often have I been lured in to both the novel and the 1940 ...

The scariest thing that ever happened to me was when I was at the bottom of Lake Superior in a submersible sampling sediment, and we couldn't hail the surface. The pilot had to power cycle the entire ...

Female-led films continue to be a hot commodity, and that interest extends to the world of catalog titles, with 88 Films releasing Love & Crime, a lesser-seen effort from the strange and perverted ...

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of ...